Celebrity Birthdays

Wondering which celebrities share birthdays? Take a gander at this week’s
list:

October 24: prolific actor Kevin Kline (1947),
director James Whitmore Jr. (1948), NAACP President and CEO Kweisi
Mfume (1948), singer Monica Arnold (1980)

October 25:
infamous NCAA basketball coach Bobby Knight (1940), child/teen 70s
actress Tracy Nelson (1963), Spin City’s Michael Boatman
(1964) and What I Like About You’s Leslie Grossman
(1970)

October 26: gospel icon Mahalia Jackson (1911),
Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton (1947), actress/designer Jaclyn
Smith (1947), musician Bootsy Collins (1951), actor D.W.
Moffett (1954), actor Dylan McDermott (1961), The Princess
Bride’s Cary Elwes (1962) and director Ted Demme
(1963)

October 27: 26^th U.S. President Theodore
Roosevelt (1858), poet and author Dylan Thomas (1914), actress Ruby
Dee (1924), poet/author Sylvia Plath (1932), actor John Cleese
(1939), mob boss John Gotti (1940), former wife of Donald Trump, Marla
Maples (1963) and reality show vixen Kelly Osborne
(1984)

October 28: NYPD Blue’s Dennis Franz (1944),
1976 Decathalon gold medallist Bruce Jenner (1949), Microsoft guru
Bill Gates (1955), actress Lauren Holly (1963), Academy Award
winner Julia Roberts (1967), 1997 Super Bowl MVP Terrel Davis
(1972), actor Joaquin Phoenix (1974) and supermodel Brooke Burns
(1977)

October 29: songstress/actress Melba Moore (1945),
actor Richard Dreyfuss (1947), original Charlie’s Angel Kate
Jackson (1948), actor Rufus Sewell (1967), actress Winona
Ryder (1971), actress and daughter of Diana Ross, Tracee Ellis Ross
(1972), actress Gabrielle Union (1973)

October 30: author
Ezra Pound (1885), producer/director/“Fonzie” Henry
Winkler (1945), actor Harry Hamlin (1951), actress Nia Long
(1970) and heiress, model and daughter of Donald, Ivanka Trump
(1981)

Krause Publications’ Sharon Korbeck, editor for the long-running
periodicals Toy Shop and Antique Trader, stopped by Diamond
International Galleries yesterday on her way to the Atlantique City show in
Atlantic City, New Jersey. Korbeck spent the day talking with Steve Geppi, John
K. Snyder, Jr., the Gallery staff and the Gemstone Publishing staff, discussing
issues facing collectors.

“It was great having Sharon spend the day with
us,” said Snyder. “It’s always fun to show off the Gallery, but it’s
particularly enjoyable when it’s to someone who understands how we’re trying to
document the rich history of comic characters.”